By Baccio Baldini. The masque was performed in celebration of the wedding of Francesco I and Giovanna of Austria. Its mythological program was supplied Vincenzio Borghini, and Giorgio Vasari designed the chariots and costumes. For all the preceding, see Nagler

T.p. date 1565, colophon date 1566

Title vignette (Medici arms). Historiated and decorated initials. Head and tail pieces. Giunti lily device with initial F on last p

Errors in pagination: 89-96 omitted, 115 misnumbered 155. Several additional mispagings in Getty c. 2

Nagler, A.M. Theatre festivals of the Medici

Getty c. 1 lacks last leaf

Binding, c. 1: old vellum. Page edges red. Binding, c. 2: vellum. Title in gilt on red spine label. Page edges sprinkled red and brown

Baldini identified as author in inscriptions on front free endpapers of both copies, and again at foot of t.p. of c. 2. Beneath this last inscription is a signature: D. Fabiano Toti. Inscription on Q2v of c. 2: Finito adi 3. d'ottobre 1604

Colophon on p. 130 (i.e. 124): In Firenze appresso i Giunti 1566. Con licenza, & priuilegio

The [2] p. preceding leaf at end contain Latin verse including "De trivmphis deorvm in nvptiis Francisci Medicis, & Ioannae Austriacae" by Lorenzo Giacomini Tebalducci Malespini

Numbers 89-96 omitted in paging; p. 121-124 misnumbered 131, 130, 131, 130

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1375

132 (i.e. 124), [4] pages, 1 leaf 21 cm (4to)

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